Matt Hawkins over at Raspberry Pi Spy has done a nice beginners intro for the Pi Co-Op board in which he makes an LED blink. It’s a simple example of what can be done with the board but worthwhile as…
Category: Tutorials
WildFly: a lightweight Java application server on the #RaspberryPi
Arun Gupta has been investigating a way to run the lightweight Java application server Wildfly on the Pi. He’s now posted up a tutorial on installing an OS on the Pi and then installing Wildfly itself. Well worth a look if…
Use a webcam and a #RaspberryPi to take pictures and upload to Dropbox
Greg Payne at Labvolution has written a brief tutorial on using fswebcam and a script he wrote to take images from a USB webcam and upload them to Dropbox. Read more here
#RaspberryPi 7-segment temperature monitor
The Average Man previously wrote a tutorial on creating a prototype of his 7-segment temperature monitor. He’s now taken an EZasPi prototyping board and made a more permanent version. You can read more about the board and his use of it…
Mount a USB flash drive on your #RaspberryPi
Matt Hawkins has written a quick guide to mounting flash drives on a Pi by using the mount command, and also by adding entries to fstab if you want it to happen automatically. Read more here
Turn the #RaspberryPi into a wireless router
I feel like I’ve covered this a few times, but here’s a new, very minimal tutorial on turning the Pi into a wifi router. This one is written by Jacob Salmela and can be found on his blog here.
Control LEDs with ScratchGPIO on the #RaspberryPi
Over at ScratchMyPi.co.uk, they’re starting a series on using Simon Walters’ ScratchGPIO to control various things connected to the GPIO pins. They’ve started simple – lighting up a few LEDs. If you’ve ever wanted to get into using the GPIO…
Building a #RaspberryPi karaoke machine
Over on the Element14 community, Sumit Rai has been posting up a step-by-step guide to building a karaoke machine. He’s even managed to work out how to use the Wolfson Pi audio board to do it, although details on that…
Watch Live Video of Earth on your #RaspberryPi
Miguel Grinberg has worked out how to play the live stream being broadcast from the International Space Station on the Raspberry Pi. It involves installing some software and writing a short script and is well worth the effort if you’d…
#RaspberryPi NAS for Travellers
Ben Perove has written a tutorial for setting up a Pi as a NAS (storage) device that is as compact as he can make it. Read more here